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Chryselephantine
Chryselephantine Chrys`el*e*phan"tine, a. [Gr. chryso`s gold +
? made of ivory, fr. ? ivory, elephant.]
Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
Note: The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built
up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with
ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for
the hair and garments.
Meaning of Elephantine from wikipedia
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Elephantine (/ˌɛlɪfænˈtaɪniː, -ˈtiː-/ EL-if-an-TY-nee, -TEE-;
Ancient Egyptian: 𓍋𓃀𓅱𓃰, romanized: ꜣbw;
Egyptian Arabic: جزيرة الفنتين; Gr****: Ἐλεφαντίνη...
- The
Elephantine Papyri and
Ostraca consist of
thousands of do****ents from the
Egyptian border fortresses of
Elephantine and Aswan,
which yielded hundreds...
- The
Elephantine Colossus (also
known as the
Colossal Elephant or the
Elephant Colossus, or by its
function as the
Elephant Hotel) was a
tourist attraction...
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center was at
Herwer in
Middle Egypt.
While his
presence on the
island of
Elephantine dates back to the
Early Dynastic Period, it wasn't
until the New Kingdom...
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Track listing:
Queen Elephantine -
Ramesses I
Queen Elephantine -
Ramesses II
Queen Elephantine -
Ramesses III
Queen Elephantine -
Ramesses IV
Elder -...
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tumultuous period. The work also
mentions Amenemhat I's
mother being from the
Elephantine Egyptian nome Ta-Seti. Many
scholars in
recent years have
argued that...
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cataracts of the Nile and
Lower Nubia in general,
worshipped especially at
Elephantine near the
First Cataract. In
ancient Egyptian, she was
known as Anuket...
- altar,
indicating it once
likely had a temple. "Ancient
Jewish Community Elephantine". 2008-12-04.
Archived from the
original on 2008-12-04.
Retrieved 2024-02-14...
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attested to in
Imperial Aramaic from the
fifth century BCE on
papyri from
Elephantine, Egypt, that
circulated widely in the
Middle and the Near East. It has...
- The
pyramid of
Elephantine is part of a
group of
seven very
similar small step pyramids,
along with the
pyramids at Edfu South, el-Kula, Naqada, Zawyet...
